Slaves and Moravian church discipline

In the opening years of the 19th century, as in the decades preceding, slaves could become members of the Moravian Church. On the one hand this is enhanced the status of an enslaved person. On the other hand it bound them to obedience to the church. In this regard it was the same for free whites as for his slaves African-Americans.

Any Moravian Black or white could be asked to leave the community if they were not complying with the discipline of the Moravian Church. 

However, waywardness was more complicated for the Moravian slave than the Moravian free white church member. If the slave was chronically disobedient he or she could, after being sufficiently warned, be sold outside the community. Obviously this made penalty for noncompliance something more dramatic for the enslaved person than for the free white.